Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Everton 0: match report

Read a full match report of the Premier League game between Wolverhampton
Wanderers and Everton at Molineux on Sunday May 6, 2012, kick-off 14:00 BST.

Like a salmon: Christophe Berra leaps high but directs his header widePhoto: ACTION IMAGES

By Graham Clutton, Molineux

11:00PM BST 06 May 2012

Everton secured another valuable point in their quest to finish in front of Liverpool, Wolves were awful and there was the customary end-of-season Mexican wave. It was that kind of day: predictable and forgettable.

The home support did their best to provide a lighter touch to an otherwise drab afternoon, celebrating non-existent goals and raising a vocal toast to players who will surely leave Molineux during the summer. The exit of players such as Kevin Doyle and Steven Fletcher seems to be the inevitable consequence of relegation for a club that will spend much of the summer chasing the best man to succeed Mick McCarthy. Terry Connor, who took over as caretaker in February, is the players’ favourite. Unfortunately, on the evidence of this performance, it will need more than Connor’s hearty enthusiasm to secure an immediate top-flight return.

Everton have no such worries, but David Moyes will be concerned by his team’s profligacy here. Marouane Fellaini’s point-blank header went wide of Dorus de Vries’s far post before Steven Pienaar and Nikica Jelavic wasted golden chances.

Assistant manager Steve Round said: “We created enough opportunities to win the game but unfortunately we were a little bit wasteful in front of goal. We’ve got one game left and if we win that game we will finish seventh. The players want to finish as high up the league as they can and if that’s above Liverpool even better.”

Wolves created precisely nothing and Connor said: “Everton have not lost in seven, so to get a clean sheet, from our point of view, it’s a good effort. We wanted to leave the fans with something positive to go home with, so if we couldn’t win it, we wanted to take something from the game.”